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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

durhamregion.com

Latest News Stories | Durham Region

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

801 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Durhamregion.com page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

durhamregion.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,610 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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53 ms

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Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Durhamregion.com, 47% (59 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 634.3 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Durhamregion.com main page is 2.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 960.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 457.1 kB

  • Original 511.6 kB
  • After minification 435.4 kB
  • After compression 54.4 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 76.1 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 457.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 723.8 kB
  • After minification 690.7 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Durham Region images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 132.4 kB

  • Original 960.5 kB
  • After minification 960.4 kB
  • After compression 828.0 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 132.4 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 60.0 kB
  • After compression 48.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Durhamregion.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.6 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (59%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Durham Region. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

durhamregion.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

durhamregion.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

durhamregion.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Durhamregion.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Durhamregion.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Durham Region. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: